Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Department

The incident happened around 11am Wednesday, where a delivery person was stopped at a gas station in the 6100 block of Stadium Dr. in Oshtemo Township. The Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office says that a suspect approached the victim with a gun and demanded the cigarettes he was delivering.

On Wednesday, the Office announced in a release that James VanDyken will be taking the role, a promotion from his current role as Captain of their operations division. The 47-year-old VanDyken has worked with the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office since 1991, starting out a jail deputy and get…

A car crash on I-94 Wednesday night has left the chief of the Comstock Fire & Rescue dead.WOODTV reports that Fire Chief Ed Switalski had been responding with firefighters and Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Deputies to a pair of crashes on Eastbound I-94 near Sprinkle Rd. ar...

A Kalamazoo area man is in jail, after he allegedly lured people to an apartment complex to be robbed.MLive reports that the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office that the first incident was reported around 11am Friday, where a victim told authorities that had gone to the Evergreen South Apartments in O…

A Kalamazoo County Deputy is claiming that he suffered retaliation from the Sheriff because he ran against him for the office.MLive reports that Deputy Thomas Swafford claims he was stripped of his deputy powers, including his firearm and badge, in January, by Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller…

A local Boy Scout Troop’s stolen trailer has now been recovered, but its contents are still missing.WWMT reports that Galesburg Boy Scout Troop 265 said that the trailer was found at 42nd St. and V Ave. in Kalamazoo County, after being taken from the Scoutmaster’s yar…

Authorities are attempting to track down a semi-truck that fatally struck a man on the shoulder and kept driving. WWMT reports that around 2:40am Friday morning, three people were on the shoulder of Eastbound I-94 near exit 88 near Galesburg, filling a car’s gas tank...

Police investigators looking into a homicide in Comstock have released their person of interest from custody.MLive reports that 20-year-old Michael Rogers of Kalamazoo was found dead at the Comstock Village Apartments off Sprinkle Rd...

A bomb threat caused the evacuation of an event center in Kalamazoo over the weekend.MLive reports that the threat against Wings West on Sports Dr. had been emailed to a TV station Saturday morning, and they contacted authorities shortly thereafter...

A pair of men from Chicago were arrested late Wednesday night in Calhoun County after a lengthy police chase.The chase started when the Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office received a tip about a vehicle involved with counterfeit money complaints...